I’m currently working on a project in C where I have a choice between using a library for hash tables or simply creating my own hash table from scratch.

What would look better on a Github portfolio from an employability perspective?

  • Vincent@feddit.nl
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    2 hours ago

    Almost my entire career I’ve worked in open source, so it’s very easy to see what my technical work looks like. No one has ever looked at it.

    When I have been on the other side, I have looked at the GitHub “portfolio” of junior applicants, but TBH, it didn’t bring me much. There will always be lots of opportunities for improvements in those examples, but that’s the point - I expect them to improve on the job.

    More experienced developers will almost never have significant work on GitHub, and if they do, it’s not a “portfolio”, but just their past work.